The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-06
DIR. WlDDEL'S BIRTHDAY
HE REACHES THE 18TH YEAR OF
HIS AGE.
The Students Avail Themselves OF
II to Testify Their Love and
Good Feeling for Him.

lREoIAL 0oRREsroNDENcH OF TEE APPEAL
GAINESVILLE, TENN April 2-This
being the seveIty-fifth birthdsy.of our
beloved Chancellor, DR.. ]. N. Waddel,
the student body desired to testify
their love and hearty good fesling for
him by a memento. The one selected
was a large and handsomely bound
parallel bibe, containing both the old
and new version. 1t Was delivered at
the close CT chapel services By Mr.. W.
L. FriersoD, OF Shelbyville, talented
and promising young man OF this
years graduating class. He said:
REVEREND AND DEAR SIR-On be-
half OF this student body it is my
pleasure, this morning, to extend TO
you our congratulations that you have
so happily witnessed the close of your
seventy fifth year; that You Rave at
tanned to three-qusTteis Of century
OF life-snd OF a life, too, which star DIS
before US as mirror, before which We
may trim and adorn the char
acters We are moulding. II, sir,
it can be gratifying to you to
know in what high esteem you are
held by the students, ovsr whom you
are called to preside-if the good will
of boys can afford you any pleasure,
then am happy to say Il ut no man
could possess in higher degree our
love, confidence and respect than do
you. We feel toward you not merely
that respect which gray bairs always
command of youth, bat in addition to
this, Il a! admiration which only no.
BILE l. fe and cody example can in
spire. Ia your fair and i'm partial treat
ment OF all students, in tho confidence
which you have reposed in u7 a I'D in
your forbeaialce in the cas- room,
and in the genera management OF the
institution, we have lad all that the
most exacing could ask. We have
always found you ready and anxious to
add to our pleasure so FIR as consistent
with our good. And, when occasion
ally 1t has seemed best to you to deny
our rsquestr, we have felt that we
should yield without q murmur, re
pcsjng, as we did, full confi1en
in your wisdom, md knowing full well
tnat your action was prompted only
nv your deep interest il cur welfare.
In tie friendly warnings and the
kindly advice which you have given
US in private, in the many hospitali,,
ties shown us by, you AID your coed
wife, and in the hearty W leone
which you have always accorded us at
your home, W. have fe,t almoss
fathers irh1ence. By y3ut kindness,
sir, you have awakened in every heart
here chords of Iowa and sympathy
which vi5rste with the very meaiion
Of your name.
la selecting testimonial of our re-
gard, it seEm I'D to uB that the most APP
propriate, the one which, We knew,
you wouli cherish most, was his
Book Ct books, the rock upon which
as q foupdation you have reared the
towering superstructure of a usefnl
Christian life, the rock upon which,
we believe, the only trne ard en-
during greatness OF ali ages has rested.
And now, sir, / htve the honor to pre-
sent to you, in he name of the stu
dents OF 1869, this memento, accom-
panied IS it is, by the beat wishes of
our one hundTed end fifty boys, for
every day OF life that yet remains to
you.
The Doctor was evidently cor sider-
ably IN we'd BY this expression of re-
gard, but he thanked the boys in an
appropriate speech, in his chsrsc ef.
istic, whole sou ed manner. He stated
that he had been teaching most OF the
time since be was 8 years of age, add
expressed bic love for young men and
especial interest and concern Tor those
over whom he presided. He stated sc
his motto for long time past, LIB
erty without license; authority with,
| on dtenotism,o MIDLOTHIAN.